People who suffer from acne may find their symptoms get worse when the clocks go forward

The clocks go forward by one hour at 1am on Saturday night.

But while we will enjoy lighter evenings it will cost us an hours sleep.

And there’s another reason to be concerned - because disruptions to our internal body clock can speed up the ageing process in our skin, according to Candice Brown s dermatologist at London Bridge Plastic Surgery.

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The study, by cosmetics giant Estee Lauder and several leading universities in New York, concluded: “The skin is clearly characterised by rhythmicity in virtually all its functions, which argues in favour of the recommendation that individual rhythms be taken into account for diagnosis and treatment schedules.

“It seems wise to take into account the fact that we have evolved on a planet that, for billions of years, has been rotating on its axis, leading to the rhythmic repetition of days and nights.”

A separate study in 2013 and published in Cell Stem Cell, found our skin has its own ‘clock’ which anticipates the best time to ‘repair at the appropriate hours’ - typically afternoons and evenings.

If that mechanism is thrown into disarray by clock changes, it struggles to perform this repair properly.

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